Just randomly clicked on my old blog and realized I haven't made a post on here in almost three and a half years... Thinking I might try to start picking this up again, but then again maybe not.

Only time will tell but hey, who knows?

Hockey

Now I am not the biggest fan of hockey, but I feel that credit should be given where credit is due. These couple of guys pulled off some of the best hockey goals I have ever seen. Period.

Magic Touch

So spring break has started and I am not doing anything this first week, which means at the current moment I have moved into the stage of complete boredom.

For my entrepreneurship class, our last assignment was to as a group come up with a new product and give a presentation on it. Let's just say that Steve, you are not the only film genius in our family as the video below will show just how much of a film editor I am. The product that my group came up with was a glove that would allow for you to change the songs, volume, etc on your iPod while you were running, which turned out to be quite ingenious. Below is our commercial for the product.

Firsts

So today was the first day since I have been here where I did not wear a jacket when going to class. It was also the first day since I have been here where the sun has been shining. Okay, I lied about the second one, its really the 3rd, and yes when you do not see the sun that much you do count the times that it is out.

Now for the 3rd time that the sun has been out there has been a mass congregation of sun-deprived people out on the lawn playing frisbee and attempting to barbeque food. Here is a little video of what I secretly hope to have happen to those people.

2 Day Trips

Well now that my bracket is completely busted I figured it had been long enough since I had blogged. This past week sums up what exactly means to be a student studying abroad. On the 17th I was in Dublin and on the 21st-22nd I was in Paris. If that is enough of a description for you there is no need for you to continue reading, however, if you are remotely interested in what occurred on the trips feel free to continue reading.

Dublin: Like many other Americans, I decided to make the trek to Dublin in honor of St. Patrick. However, due to a group presentation that I have mentioned in previous posts it required me to plan ahead to meet up with the group at a set time at a set place. This plan however fell through and I was luckily able to meet up with a guy from Dublin who had exchanged at ASU last year and had played on the soccer team. While the night definitely did not start out the best, it still could have ended much, much worse.

Paris: The next trip taken was to Paris, this time however for a little over a day instead of a scant 12 hours. Having drawn upon my past experiences in the city, as well as the knowledge of my Grandfather. I spent the day going to the major tourist spots i.e. Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame. However, one of the most amazing things about Paris is the beauty that seems to emanate throughout the city. This made the walks from site to site extremely enjoyable and a very rewarding part of the day.

While Paris is an amazing city, the reason for my travelling there is due to my flying into Ireland and therefore never receiving a temporary visa stamp from the UK. It was necessary for me to therefore leave the UK so that I could obtain that stamp, and lets just say that British people seem to have a certain affection to their stamps that they just don't seem to want to share with the rest of the world. After arriving back in Glasgow after midnight, I was held up over half an hour while I explained to the uniformed official that I was studying abroad and had been studying abroad for almost two months already.

Here is a link to the photos I took in both cities...
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2452000&id=10051388&l=6fd836f857

Whoa

Sorry for the delay in posting. It has been out of sheer laziness and in my opinion a lack of anything that is noteworthy to blog about. However the time has come to write something, and for that I will be inflicting upon you some rather mundane stories that will have you wishing you could get the 30 seconds that you spent reading this of your life back.

First off, I buzzed my hair, seeing as I am far, far away from my Mom (i.e. 7 time zones) I am now looking at my hair as a blank canvas. That means all the stupid hairstyles that I did not have the guts to do back home are now going to be tried out on an unsuspecting audience.

Second story to waste your time. I just recently started training with the football team here and to get to the training ground one must take the double-decked bus. Well on Tuesday, upon getting to the second level of the bus with some other mates from the team and proceeded to see a group of NED's (Non Educated Delinquents) already sitting there drinking and smoking. One, very high and drunk NED came forward and proceeded to interrogate us, first asking the most loaded question in Glasgow, "who do you support?". Which means do you support Glasgow Rangers or Glasgow Celtic, kind of a big deal in these parts due to the religious backings of the 2 clubs. My stock answer to this question has been a blank stare and then a stutter mentioning that I am from America. Well upon telling this NED that he asked my whereabouts and not wanting to explain myself any further told him California. To which he launched into a butchered version of some California song which soon turned into American Boy and then American Idiot. This being my first experience with a NED, I will say that they are indeed as dumb and as stupid as everyone makes them out to be.

Third story. Watch this video, I have probably seen it at least 100 times and cannot stop laughing. After you watch it the first time, on the second go around pause it at 20 seconds. Enjoy.

Flip the page

So the past week or so have been semi-interesting on a couple of different levels. First off, I have been dealing with a sore throat for about 2 weeks now, and after battling long and hard, have now succumbed to defeat versus the all-mighty common cold. Now I can live with a cold, but the one thing that I find continuously annoying is that no matter how hard you try to sleep at night, you just CAN'T. It's like that cold employs a specific germ to push the cough button every time you close your eyes and start nodding off.

Now normally in this case, when talking with people I would ask "do you want the good news first or the bad?", but seeing as how I am president, vice president, speaker of the house, and pretty much anybody else with a vote I will give the bad news first. As of this point in time the chances of me being in Dublin for St. Patrick's Day are slim to none, thanks to the wisdom of Retail Management in making sure that study abroad students are not able to sign up for tutorial sections until pretty much everyone else has, thus leaving them with the least desirable time slots. That means that on March 17th at 9am, instead of arriving in Dublin for a day of celebrating Irish heritage, I will instead be in the Colville building on the 7th floor turning in a paper and giving a presentation on the electronics sector and how my specific company (to which I still don't even know what companies exist) are dealing with the current credit crunch and what my recommendations for them are. If anyone has any ideas or wants to plan a way for me to get to Dublin after this is done for relatively cheap, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

Now for the good news, I have recently started playing some pick-up basketball at the gym on the weekends (see Mom I knew I needed to bring my Kobe's), and am now also going to begin training with the university's football team. Having not touched a football in over a month now, I am looking to get my legs back underneath and am grateful for the fact that I will begin training with the 3rd team (and then hopefully moving up). While one might have expected a longer paragraph for the good news, I find that it is always easier to vent and write about the bad news than try to find creative and loquacious ways to write good news.

Oh, and I have introduced some of my friends over here to lexulous and lets just say that at this point in time the word creation genes still reside on the correct side of the Atlantic.